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stromateid fish

DEFINITIONS OF: stromateid fish

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n small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

Synonyms:
butterfish, stromateid
Types:
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Poronotus triacanthus, dollarfish
small food fish of Atlantic coast
California pompano, Palometa simillima, palometa
smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies
Paprilus alepidotus, harvestfish
butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina
driftfish
small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide
driftfish
larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico
Hyperglyphe perciformis, barrelfish, black rudderfish
blackish fish of New England waters
Type of:
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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